Providing students with formative audio feedback

Bioscience Education

Volumn 20, Issue , 2012, Pages 22-36

  Brearley, Francis Q ^a   Rod Cullen, W ^a  

^a MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attainment; Audio recordings; Feedback; Formative assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877690017     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14797860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11120/beej.2012.20000022     Document Type: Article

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